Lindsey Ferrentino

Lindsey Ferrentino is a New York-based playwright originally from Florida. Lindsey’s critically acclaimed Ugly Lies the Bone premiered at Roundabout Theatre Company in the Underground, has been produced at theatres across the United States, and marks both her National Theatre and UK theatre debut.

She is the recipient of the National Art Club’s Kesserling Prize, Laurents/Hatcher Citation of Excellence, ASCAP Cole Porter Playwriting Prize, Holland New Voices Playwriting Award, Paul Newman Drama Award, made the 2015 Kilroys List, finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn, nominated for the Outer Critics’ Circle John Gassner Award, and is the only two-time finalist for the Kendeda Playwriting Prize.

In the 2017–18 New York theatre season, Lindsey’s Amy and the Orphans was produced at Roundabout Theatre Company and her play This Flat Earth at Playwright’s Horizons. Lindsey’s plays have been developed at Atlantic Theater Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, MCC, The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Premiere Stages, Florida Studio Theater, The Great Plains Theater Conference, 3LD Art and Technology Center, Manhattan Repertory Theater, and The Marilyn Monroe Theater in New York. Her work has been seen regionally at The Kennedy Center in DC, The Alliance Theater in Georgia, The Blank Theater in LA, and The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Ferrentino is a recipient of the Edward Albee Playwriting Fellowship and Residency as well as Blue Ridge Playwriting Fellowship. Her short stories have been published in New York Magazine and Aaduna Literary Magazine.

Lindsey holds a BFA from New York University and two MFAs in playwriting from Hunter College and the Yale School of Drama.
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